Project

3D Printed Flute

Groups

This project presents a new approach for the design and fabrication of the acoustic instrument, using digital fabrication technologies, and specifically 3D printing. A concert flute was 3D printed, including (almost) all of its mechanisms, without the need to assemble the moving parts. In order to fulfill this challenge a new design of the instrument was made. Instead of proposing the machine can easily replace the human craft - we use this research to examine the possible contributions of rapid prototyping to the design and fabrication of traditional instruments.